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ArticleJournal of computational chemistry2025

Exhaustive Spatial Sampling for Complete Topology of the Electrostatic Potential.

Evelio Francisco, Ángel Martín Pendás, Dimas Suárez

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Article in Journal of computational chemistry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Evelio FranciscoDepartamento Química Física y Analítica, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2717-6220
Ángel Martín PendásDepartamento Química Física y Analítica, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4471-4000
Dimas SuárezDepartamento Química Física y Analítica, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain.

Funding

Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades PID2021-122763NB-I00
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This work presents a robust and efficient algorithm for exhaustively determining the critical points (CPs) of the molecular electrostatic potential (MEP) in 3D space. By combining Newton's method with a systematic physical space sampling strategy, we locate all CPs (maxima, minima, and saddle points) for both exact quantum-chemical MEPs and their tricubic interpolated approximations. The method is validated using a test function with known CPs and applied to a diverse set of molecules, including neutral systems, ions, and noncovalent complexes from the S66 and IONIC-HB datasets. Our results demonstrate that the interpolated MEP faithfully reproduces the topology of the exact potential in most cases, with minor discrepancies arising near nuclear positions or in regions of low gradient. The algorithm's efficiency (2-7

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molecular electrostatic potentialquantum chemical topologyquantum theory of atoms in moleculesS66 datasettopology of scalar fields

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PMCPMC12306600

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